Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to reap millions

Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by geococcyxc on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @08:57PM (#10786682)

If you've never heard of "fantasy sports", John Oliver to the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq785nJ0FXQ

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by djsumdog on Thursday December 24, 2015 @12:06AM (#10787189)

I was thinking about this. You beat me to it. Great video basically showing those are gambling sites and the only people who make it big are mathematicians with tons of spreadsheet and custom R scripts.

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by daurnimator on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:47PM (#10786796)

(video not available outside of america)

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by vmlinuz on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @11:11PM (#10787081)

(video plays fine here in Hong Kong)

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by aembleton on Thursday December 24, 2015 @06:16AM (#10787823)

It plays fine in the Netherlands. I'm in the UK but use Browsec plugin [1] to watch it through a VPN in the Netherlands.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/browsec/

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by babuskov on Thursday December 24, 2015 @05:15AM (#10787732)

(plays fine in Serbia)

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by plinkplonk on Thursday December 24, 2015 @07:51AM (#10788001)

plays in India

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Re:Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to rea... by agiamas on Thursday December 24, 2015 @11:18AM (#10788589)

plays in EU

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